Private Herbarium of Jason Hollinger (hb. Hollinger)
Sarcogyne hypophaea (Nyl.) Arnold
Acarosporaceae
Jason Hollinger (2018-09-18)
ID certainty: positive
Jason Hollinger
17239
2017-05-04
United States, Nevada, White Pine County, Snake Range, slopes ca. 0.6-0.7 km NW of mouth of Strawberry Creek
39.072 -114.257 +-50m.
2070 meters (6790ft)
open pinyon-juniper woodland mixed with some patches of _Artemisia tridentata_ on mixture of quartzite and limestone gravel on gentle NE slopes
granitic pebbles
Caloplaca atroalba group, Staurothele drummondii
thallus absent; apothecia clustered or separate, round to contorted, disk red-black to almost orange in shade, sometimes ubonate to even gyrose in a few places, rims black thick with conspicuous joint lines; hymenium ~75-80um; hypothecium white; exciple carbonized outside, hyaline inside; paraphyses ~1.5-2um below; spores many, ~3-4x1.5-2um